HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENT’S OUTLOOK TOWARDS ONLINE ASSESSMENT: A MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS

Dr. Shruti Nagar
Faculty, DES’s Institute of Management Development and Research, Pune.

Prajakta Pradhan
Faculty, DES’s Smt. Jayashree Sharadchandra Kothari Business School Mumbai.

Vol 17, No 06 ( 2022 )   |  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6707949   |   Licensing: CC 4.0   |   Pg no: 112-122   |   Published on: 24-06-2022

Abstract
In the present study an attempt has been made to identify the outlook of students who are pursuing undergraduate and post-graduate programs towards the continuous and term end assessment, appeared for online evaluation. The aim is to understand the outlook of students from different domains on the effectiveness of the online assessment. Besides secondary data, the primary has been collected through a self-administered questionnaire with close ended questions. The respondents were the students who have been assessed through online mode in continuous as well and term end examinations of graduate and post-graduation programs. The single cross sectional descriptive research design has been used. For reliability and data analysis Cronbach’s Alpha, Chi-square test and MANOVA have been used. In this study it is found that there is a significant difference in the outlook of students of different degree programs, about online assessments. They differ in their outlook about online assessment being effective in all subjects, give opportunity to use unfair means, not results in feeling of having command over the knowledge of the subjects after examination and anxiety issues about proper working of digital infrastructure before examination.

Keywords:
Online assessment, Effectiveness, Higher Education

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